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Matt Van Epps won the TN-07 special election, sure.

But Republicans dropping from +22 to +9 in a Trump district, with turnout near midterm levels, is the kind of “victory” that keeps RNC operatives awake at night.
What Tennessee’s special election tells us about 2026
Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture. Republican ...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Republicans are now defending Pete Hegseth for… checks notes… ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike.
Even apparent war crimes won’t stop the GOP from defending Hegseth
Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans ...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Kash Patel's girlfriend, your ride is here
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December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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👀 👀 👀

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‘I don’t want them in our country,’ Trump says in racist rant
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump launched into a racist rant against Somali immigrants that was reminiscent of his earlier “shithole countries” tirade ...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Treason!
By Drew Sheneman

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December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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1,140 days of Trump’s second term to go.
(We’re already exhausted and it’s day … this.)

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December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Conservatives don’t care about academic standards — but suddenly one undergrad gets an F for handing in a Bible sermon instead of a psychology paper, and Fox News turns it into a national crisis.
Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay
Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. Conservatives have spent the last week ...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Trump's delusion is maxing out right now.

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December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Courts had another chaotic week: judges greenlit lies about the abortion pill, Jeanine Pirro found a new loophole to overcharge cases, Trump’s pushing sketchy law schools, Burkman and Wohl finally faced consequences, and Ed Martin may be deleting records. More here 👀 👇
Jury-shopping with Jeanine, and abortion-pill liars get a pass
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. It’s another bleak week in the courts, ...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Kill him
By Clay Jones

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December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Mhmmm.

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Republicans still spouting bullsh-t about imaginary health care plans
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas appeared on Fox Business Thursday, delivering a nonsensical word salad about the GOP’s health insurance plans— none of which would actually reduce the skyrocketing ...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Every lower court has said his executive order is flat-out unconstitutional — and the only reason this nonsense is still alive is because he keeps running to a Supreme Court that’s happy to bail him out on the shadow docket.
Should we be panicking about birthright citizenship or not?
The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging birthright citizenship, aka the Trump administration’s attempt to write a major portion of the 14th Amendment out of existence—and even ...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Republicans are spiraling about 2026 and blaming Mike Johnson — but his big advice on rising costs was literally “relax.” Great.

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Why the GOP’s ‘affordability’ message flops
Republicans are in disarray as they begin to realize that they may lose the House in ...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: I'm with stupid
By Jack Ohman

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December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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1,141 days of Trump’s second term to go.
(Collective scream into the void goes here.)

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December 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Boss hiss.

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The World Cup sucks up to Trump, and it sucks
Remember when we learned in 2018 that the United States would host the 2026 World Cup along with Mexico and Canada? Back then, it seemed like an amazing opportunity to be part of an inherently ...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Trump did not send his “best people” into the courts—and his revenge plans have suffered for it.

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Trump’s revenge plot unravels as another grand jury shuts him down
President Donald Trump’s plans for revenge against his political enemies were disrupted yet again on Thursday after a grand jury declined to pursue charges against New York Attorney General ...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Kash Patel allegedly used FBI SWAT agents as an Uber service for his girlfriend’s drunk friends — and then berated agents who pushed back.

This isn’t “law enforcement.” It’s a concierge service for a 27-year-old country singer.

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FBI agents now reportedly acting as Kash Patel’s personal Uber
FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under scrutiny for allegedly bending the bureau’s resources to support his personal life, this time involving his girlfriend’s social outings. According ...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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WEAK.

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Trump finally gets his ‘peace prize’
President Donald Trump received a made-up peace prize from the International Federation of Association Football ahead of the 2026 World Cup, ...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Johnson: More, more. And I have to because President Trump works 21 hours a day.

Yeah, okay.

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Watch 'wartime' House speaker drop some baffling bullsh-t
Mike Johnson branded himself a “wartime” speaker of the House during a Friday appearance on Fox Business. He also claimed he and President Donald Trump work nearly every hour in the day�doing ...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Trump’s new “National Security Strategy” reads less like policy and more like a fanfic for white supremacists.

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Trump releases racist blueprint for the world
The Trump administration released its “ National Security Strategy ”� on Thursday night, but the document reads more like a manifesto advocating for white supremacy than a supposed national ...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Jealousy
By Drew Sheneman

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December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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SCOTUS just blessed Texas’ extreme gerrymander, so Virginia Democrats responded: fine, we’ll draw a 10D–1R map.

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Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging
Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Clearly, someone didn't fall in line.

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Out of step: Trump breaks up with his ballroom architect
President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo. McCrery Architects, you’re fired.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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He just sucks the joy out of everything, doesn't he?

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Sean Duffy faces pajama protest after playing fashion police
Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party. After the transportation secretary told people to “ dress up ” at the airport as a way to make air travel better ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM